EBarnacle: I don't want to translate the song to sing it, just to translate it. If I sing it, by myself and not in front of any audience (I'm not a performer), I sing it in English, of course.

McGrath of Harlow: yes, it is the solution I'm working on, but it conveys the idea of land and not of water.

Joe Offer: in Italian, we name the Netherlands both Olanda (Holland) and Paesi Bassi (literary: Lowlands).

Thanks. R